Agency
Friendship Ark, INC.
Friendship Ark, INC. was paid $20.91M by Medicaid between Mar 2018 and Nov 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is H2016, community support for mental illness or disability, billed per day — 55% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFRIENDSHIP ARK, INC.
AMES, IA 50014
AMES, IA 50014
33aNPI1194177220assigned 07/13/2016
33bProvider typeDevelopmentally Disabled Services Day Training Agency
28Total paid$20.91M
24GClaims9,713
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthMar 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Developmentally Disabled Services Day Training Agency providers in Iowa
Rank by total paid#11 of 45
Median peer was paid$11.12M
This provider vs. median1.9×
Peers share this provider's primary NPPES type and state. Size alone says nothing about billing quality: a big agency or a hospital system is expected to sit far above the median.
Box 24A · Dates of service
Paid by month
Paid that monthNov–Dec 2024: claims still arriving when the file was cut, so these months run low for every provider
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1,098 | $861K | |
| 2019 | 2,845 | $2.37M | |
| 2020 | 1,256 | $2.83M | |
| 2021 | 618 | $3.08M | |
| 2022 | 580 | $2.97M | |
| 2023 | 1,766 | $4.36M | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,550 | $4.43M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H2016 | Community support for mental illness or disability, billed per dayComprehensive community support services, per diem | 55% | 1,440 | 1,145 | $11.52M |
| S5136 | Companion care, adult (e.g., iadl/adl); per diem | 32% | 1,197 | 919 | $6.78M |
| H2015 | Community support for mental illness or disability, per 15 minutesComprehensive community support services, per 15 minutes | 6.1% | 1,299 | 900 | $1.27M |
| T2021 | Day program for adults with developmental disabilities, per 15 minutesDay habilitation, waiver; per 15 minutes | 3.9% | 2,311 | 1,135 | $821K |
| T2020 | Day habilitation, waiver; per diem | 2.5% | 3,466 | 619 | $519K |
Claims and beneficiary counts add up across code × month rows, so one patient seen every month counts many times. Rows with fewer than 12 claims are suppressed by HHS, so small lines can be missing.
From NPPES
Who's on the registration
Authorized officialELLIS, JENNIFER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)